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and more of a deal maker than paul ryan. so i do want to separate this. >> there is a different format. this is a campaign debate. i mean and joe biden has had-- you know, a record of 40 years of working across the aisle, of being open and friendly to-- understand this. joe biden was on a rescue mission last night. he was if damage control because in denver the president of the united states was guilty of unilateral disarmament against mitt romney. he just did not-- it's a lot better to have a debate when both people show up. and barack obama did not show up. and that left-- joe biden with a real-- he had to make the case that wasn't made. and because the president didn't even engage in denver, you can see in spite of the polls and paul solman's case, you can see the surge of mitt romney in a state like florida where the issue of social security, the president said there's no real difference between us. that gave mitt romney an opening that he has driven at least two cadillacs through. and -- >> would you ever do that? we de
and more of a deal maker than paul ryan. so i do want to separate this. >> there is a different format. this is a campaign debate. i mean and joe biden has had-- you know, a record of 40 years of working across the aisle, of being open and friendly to-- understand this. joe biden was on a rescue mission last night. he was if damage control because in denver the president of the united states was guilty of unilateral disarmament against mitt romney. he just did not-- it's a lot better to...
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but you're right there is enthusiasm for mitt romney and paul ryan as well. david, where is new mexico, the land of enchantment. remember we used to all... (laughter) and "the silver state, nevada." >> pennsylvania, home of the pennsylvania turnpike. (laughter) >> woodruff: i miss, that, too. that is a part of the legendary american political system, the role call at these conventions. why did they do away with it? >> i think because television didn't cover it, quite honestly. >> it's not that they did away with it. but they did it quickly and early. they got it over with. >> i think one of their concerns judy, they did want it-to-get it out of the way and if it wasn't going to be covered why make it endless. but i agree with you. the think it shows above anything else was the diversity of america. you see texans really were different from the people of the state of maine. >> ifill: well, diversity of a sort, anyway, right? >> well, regional diversity, yeah. >> here on the floor the republicans have done a nice job of maximizing their potential visual diversi
but you're right there is enthusiasm for mitt romney and paul ryan as well. david, where is new mexico, the land of enchantment. remember we used to all... (laughter) and "the silver state, nevada." >> pennsylvania, home of the pennsylvania turnpike. (laughter) >> woodruff: i miss, that, too. that is a part of the legendary american political system, the role call at these conventions. why did they do away with it? >> i think because television didn't cover it, quite...
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and paul ryan, i mean, i know were talking about romney, but paul ryan said something last night that - he said, you know, that obama enacted this thing nobody asked for it. nobody wanted it. well, obama ran on health care. he said this is what i want to do. this is what im offering to you. and we elected him. >> suarez: what are the major issues for you as you make up your minds in the next couple of weeks, ben? >> i think really for me, i was a little disappointed that he sort of education, he mentioned it for about a sentence. i would have liked to have seen that a little bit more. this might entirely be because my mother is a teacher and im a college student, but, i mean, really feel that education is probably one of the most important things that our government can do for us. >> what he needed to do - what he could have done that would have been, i think, very helpful for me, is to tell me how your business experience translates into being the chief executive of our country and developing jobs for our economy. and maybe you cant do it in a 30-minute speech, maybe that's the probl
and paul ryan, i mean, i know were talking about romney, but paul ryan said something last night that - he said, you know, that obama enacted this thing nobody asked for it. nobody wanted it. well, obama ran on health care. he said this is what i want to do. this is what im offering to you. and we elected him. >> suarez: what are the major issues for you as you make up your minds in the next couple of weeks, ben? >> i think really for me, i was a little disappointed that he sort of...
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>> i would say with paul ryan, he's got to keep it going. the republicans are on a roll right now, they feel they're on a roll. but he should heed the council of robert frost to john kennedy who said be more boston and less harvard. i would say be more wisconsin more walk shaw than washington, d.c. he cannot give in words his powerpoint if he mentions sequestration oncetor committee as a whole or the motion to recommit eyes will glaze over he's got to stay on offense but at the same time he has to par tri differences between him and governor romney and especially changes that governor romney -- several incarnations that have gone to is going to parry that, not to get into the weeds but parry it. as far as joe biden, i think he's got a tougher but in many ways more simple. he's got to lift the spirits of the spirited -- dispirited democrats. i think he f he does that -- he is the happy warrior, very much so. a lot more so than the president. but he these play both offense and defense. last week the president played neither. by defense he's go
>> i would say with paul ryan, he's got to keep it going. the republicans are on a roll right now, they feel they're on a roll. but he should heed the council of robert frost to john kennedy who said be more boston and less harvard. i would say be more wisconsin more walk shaw than washington, d.c. he cannot give in words his powerpoint if he mentions sequestration oncetor committee as a whole or the motion to recommit eyes will glaze over he's got to stay on offense but at the same time...
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haven't had a chance to ask you about the romney choice of paul ryan, has that changed the dime snick. >> first of all i thought it was substantively heroic because ryan does give some-- my first reaction was political disaster for two reasons. why, house republicans are the most unpopular group in america. and he's a house republican. so i thought romney had to distance himself. two, medicare is a really popular program. i think it's a completely unsustainable program that has to be fundamentallically changed but it is really popular. so you are tying yourself to two losing issues. having said that, at least in the couple weeks since ryan has been picked, that nightmare scenario has not hurt romney, in part because one thing i didn't appreciate f people see romney as this flip-flopper who will just be for whatever is popular, picking ryan, going into that medicare moreas was actually a sign of some steal there. and so it sort of has hasn't been so bad and i think ryan is pretty effective. >> woodruff: like the democrats thought or many of them were saying that they thought the medica
haven't had a chance to ask you about the romney choice of paul ryan, has that changed the dime snick. >> first of all i thought it was substantively heroic because ryan does give some-- my first reaction was political disaster for two reasons. why, house republicans are the most unpopular group in america. and he's a house republican. so i thought romney had to distance himself. two, medicare is a really popular program. i think it's a completely unsustainable program that has to be...
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as far as paul ryan's speech on poverty, i mean paul ryan's budget, 62% of the cuts in his budget came from programs for poor people. i think it's wonderful to talk about social mobility. i think it's great to talk about community. but i mean when the rubber hits 9 road, who's going to pay for it i mean who is going to pay the cost. there wasn't a single pit of burden imposed by paul ryan in his budget on those luckiest, the most advantaged, the most privileged of all of us in this country. so i mean, yes, you can say he is taking on entitlements or whatever else. but you know, let's not talk about poverty when in fact we're cutting the lungs out from those at the very bottom. >> woodruff: so you are saying they are walking away from what they -- >> listen, the obama campaign has been silent on the subject of pov earth. i mean middle class is their mantra. and i think david's point about their single issue is absolutely true. i think that they have been one-dimensional in their approach to women. it's been all about reproductive rights. they haven't talked about the issues of equal pay
as far as paul ryan's speech on poverty, i mean paul ryan's budget, 62% of the cuts in his budget came from programs for poor people. i think it's wonderful to talk about social mobility. i think it's great to talk about community. but i mean when the rubber hits 9 road, who's going to pay for it i mean who is going to pay the cost. there wasn't a single pit of burden imposed by paul ryan in his budget on those luckiest, the most advantaged, the most privileged of all of us in this country. so...
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paul ryan understands about debt. these why those guys-- they're responding to concerns americans have. >> ifill: go ahead, judy. >> woodruff: was just going to say the other thing that comes to mind immediately is governor romney spent a the love time talking about china, declaring china as soon as he becomes president a currency manipulator. john engler, the head of the national association of manufacturers said he didn't think mitt romney meant that, that he would do is that if he was elected president. >> i think mitt romney-- >> love john engram but i disagree with mim i discussed this a long time ago with governor romney. he feels very viscerally about china. i don't think at the end of the day his object is a trade war. it's to increase the leverage of the american president. and i think he believes he's better capable of doing that because of his past experience than, frankly, either this president or the last president. >> ifill: vin weber, norm coleman, both former members of congress, senior policy advisers
paul ryan understands about debt. these why those guys-- they're responding to concerns americans have. >> ifill: go ahead, judy. >> woodruff: was just going to say the other thing that comes to mind immediately is governor romney spent a the love time talking about china, declaring china as soon as he becomes president a currency manipulator. john engler, the head of the national association of manufacturers said he didn't think mitt romney meant that, that he would do is that if...
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echoing something paul ryan said the other night. >> probably paul ryan's best line in the hall where college graduates return to their childhood bedroom and looking up at the fading obama posters wait firg their lives to begin. it's a similar... i think anger factor has been maximized. they've got to get as many votes from people who are angry at president obama and what they're looking for is to give permission to people who voted for president obama in 2008, who liked president obama but who has been disappointed and want to be convinced that mitt romney could be better. it's not a question of disloyalty to the president or animosity just for the country's sake that you wanted... that's what he's trying to communicate, i believe. >> does that change the job, then, or how does it affect the job that mitt romney has had what paul ryan told us last night? >> well, he did the indictment and i thought he did it pretty well. there's been some criticism of ryan that there were some factual errors and he didn't tell it the way a journalist would tell it. he described the simpson-bowles com
echoing something paul ryan said the other night. >> probably paul ryan's best line in the hall where college graduates return to their childhood bedroom and looking up at the fading obama posters wait firg their lives to begin. it's a similar... i think anger factor has been maximized. they've got to get as many votes from people who are angry at president obama and what they're looking for is to give permission to people who voted for president obama in 2008, who liked president obama...
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. >> woodruff: the budget plan was proposed this week by chairman paul ryan. where does that leave the budget fight? >> the president introduced a budget that's going nowhere. and it's been-- paul ryan has been introduced a budget praised by those on the right as bold and decisive and clairvoyant and all other things. it's science fiction. it's going nowhere. but the problem of the paul ryan budget is, politically it is an undertow for mitt romney. mitt romney is now seen as somebody who favors the rich over the middle class by 65% to 28% in the cbs news/"new york times" poll. he's seen as somebody who is out of touch with ordinary people. here is a proposal that cuts the top rate for the wealthiest by 28.5%. think of what kind of a tax cut it would be for mitt romney. i mean, just-- he's going to be answering that. this is--un, talk about the cuts, and my goodness, the cuts are visited about basically people who are means tested, people of lower and ordinary-- even less than ordinary income-- and all the advantages go, in terms of the tax side of it, to the b
. >> woodruff: the budget plan was proposed this week by chairman paul ryan. where does that leave the budget fight? >> the president introduced a budget that's going nowhere. and it's been-- paul ryan has been introduced a budget praised by those on the right as bold and decisive and clairvoyant and all other things. it's science fiction. it's going nowhere. but the problem of the paul ryan budget is, politically it is an undertow for mitt romney. mitt romney is now seen as...
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but paul ryan has what mitt romney had, which is the ability to real off number after number. and again i'm struck by the fact that you can get wonky this year. people somehow seem to want that. and ryan certainly has that capacity to just go through here's why our position is right. number abcd. >> and just very quickly, 30 seconds, this notion you said a minute ago that romney has moved to the center, is that something he continues on the campaign trail? >> i bit. >> the obama folks are saying it is a different mitt romney. >> they had a big decision to make 6, 8 months ago which was do we attack him as a right wing idea loll or flip-flopper. they went idealogue now trying to switch to flip-flopper. but i think he'll have to continue that. it's working for him. >> woodruff: well, the two of you are working for us. mark shields, david brooks. and we'll see you next week. and we'll see you -- >> thursday, that's right thursday nice, vice presidential debate. mark and david keep up the talk on the doubleheader on our web site coming up after this program. >> brown: and we turn
but paul ryan has what mitt romney had, which is the ability to real off number after number. and again i'm struck by the fact that you can get wonky this year. people somehow seem to want that. and ryan certainly has that capacity to just go through here's why our position is right. number abcd. >> and just very quickly, 30 seconds, this notion you said a minute ago that romney has moved to the center, is that something he continues on the campaign trail? >> i bit. >> the...
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republican vice presidential nominee paul ryan made the romney campaign's pitch to the aarp in person, drawing some boos when he insisted the president's health care law harms medicare. >> the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal "obamacare," because it represents the worst of both worlds. (boos) i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction. it weakens medicare for today's seniors and puts it at risk for the next generation. >> woodruff: debate over medicare has intensified since ryan joined the ticket. democrats charge his budget plan would end the program. >> it's true, mitt romney would replace medicare's guaranteed benefits with a voucher system." >> woodruff: a new obama ad makes that case, accusing romney of seeking to raise seniors' costs by up to $6,400 a year. that's currently airing in colorado, iowa and florida. and at an event today in virginia, the president said he would fight any changes to the program. >> i will refuse to turn medicare into a voucher. ( cheers and applause ) americans who have worked hard shouldn't have to spend their golden years at the mer
republican vice presidential nominee paul ryan made the romney campaign's pitch to the aarp in person, drawing some boos when he insisted the president's health care law harms medicare. >> the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal "obamacare," because it represents the worst of both worlds. (boos) i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction. it weakens medicare for today's seniors and puts it at risk for the next generation. >> woodruff: debate over medicare has...
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look, paul ryan told us yesterday in st. pete, he said you know, look, this is going to be my first big debate on the big stage. joe biden has done this a hundred times. i think it showed tonight. i think biden's message was basically welcome to my turf, rookie. the thing that paul ryan i think did very well tonight was keep his compose sure. i think people that like joe biden really liked what they saw tonight. people that don't like joe biden probably found him on knock-- obnoxious and overbearing. my sense is that paul ryan probably scored points with people when he asked the vice president to stop interrupting, that the american people would be better served. by a better, more polite debate. i don't know that, you know, i don't know that paul ryan did any real damage tonight. but he certainly didn't draw any blood. >> woodruff: jonathan martin, to the extent the obama campaign was feeling the need tonight for the vice president to get them back on track, is there a sense that the vice president was able to pull that off
look, paul ryan told us yesterday in st. pete, he said you know, look, this is going to be my first big debate on the big stage. joe biden has done this a hundred times. i think it showed tonight. i think biden's message was basically welcome to my turf, rookie. the thing that paul ryan i think did very well tonight was keep his compose sure. i think people that like joe biden really liked what they saw tonight. people that don't like joe biden probably found him on knock-- obnoxious and...
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that's why paul ryan's budget was able to be embraced and the reason paul ryan is the vice presidential nominee is because of the electoral reconfirmation his victory earned. >> ifill: senator, as you listen to all this commentary on what's right with washington, what's wrong with washington, you go home to wyoming and what do people tell you about this, about what... are we right or do they hate us as much as we think? >> the message from wyoming that they want me to continue to take to washington is leave us alone. leave us alone, our air, our water, our land, states' rights. let us make decisions about medicaid. let us make decisions about health care. let us opt out of so much of the obama health care law and let us develop our energy resources in wyoming. we're so blessed with coal, oil, gas, uranium and we continue also with renewables but have so many onerous regulations coming out from environmental protection agency, which to me is actually doing more harm to the nation right now than good. >> woodruff: but cut programs even if it means the most vulnerable ones take the hit. >>
that's why paul ryan's budget was able to be embraced and the reason paul ryan is the vice presidential nominee is because of the electoral reconfirmation his victory earned. >> ifill: senator, as you listen to all this commentary on what's right with washington, what's wrong with washington, you go home to wyoming and what do people tell you about this, about what... are we right or do they hate us as much as we think? >> the message from wyoming that they want me to continue to...
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with paul ryan, with mitt romney as president and paul ryan as vice president, we can restore and revive that america, that american story we know and love. the world will know it. our children will tell it and our grandchildren will possess it for years to come. god bless america. this is our time. we are truly the best last hope on earth. thank you. [crowd cheering] >> mia love, they're very excited about her. she is by the way challenging incumbent in a brand new district in utah. jiljilljim matheson, the encumbe not very popular. what is it about mia love people love so much. >> she's a star. very good video. i thought a very good speech. if you got a game around it, we've built it. but she gave a very forceful speech and this is a story and again that's the concept of struggling that you pay for it and it's all about you and your work. it's that immigrant. she delivered from the heart. >> jim matheson is the only democrat elected in the most republican state in the union. >> ifill: the son of a former governor. >> he survived a number but this is a tough challenge. i would say what
with paul ryan, with mitt romney as president and paul ryan as vice president, we can restore and revive that america, that american story we know and love. the world will know it. our children will tell it and our grandchildren will possess it for years to come. god bless america. this is our time. we are truly the best last hope on earth. thank you. [crowd cheering] >> mia love, they're very excited about her. she is by the way challenging incumbent in a brand new district in utah....
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and they united, paul ryan and scott walker and david brooks as union supporters, they're back in the union. now that is an amazing achievement on the part of the nfl owners. >> i was so furious, i was in a bar watching the green bay game t was just the last game, i think i lesson i mentioned is if you think we're bad, the replacement pundit was be even worse so you should love us a little bit more. >> i disagree with him. >> woodruff: we don't want-- all right, now we know where david spends his monday nights, in bars in new york and other places. >> watching nfl. >> woodruff: mark, david, thank you both. and keep up the talk on the doubleheader and our own jim lehrer will appear in a segment with cbs's bob schieffer on the program "sunday morning" this weekend to talk about the history of presidential debates. >> suarez: and to the last installment this week in our series of reports about america's dropout problem. tonight, we take a second look at a story about life outside the classroom. we head back to st. petersburg, florida, where one boy's enthusiasm for journalism has helped
and they united, paul ryan and scott walker and david brooks as union supporters, they're back in the union. now that is an amazing achievement on the part of the nfl owners. >> i was so furious, i was in a bar watching the green bay game t was just the last game, i think i lesson i mentioned is if you think we're bad, the replacement pundit was be even worse so you should love us a little bit more. >> i disagree with him. >> woodruff: we don't want-- all right, now we know...
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even today we saw paul ryan talking more about benghazi. >> i don't think the president, i think the-- the thing they do is stand in defense of susan rice, not give the appearance that she was operating on the information she had. our information was wrong. this is it. but i mean to disa bruise the sort of conspiracy theorist, but also to stand up for one of his own. i don't think quite frankly he has done that. >> is this hurting the president, as it kind of drags on? >> i personally don't think so i think the hardest argument, the argue they could make, the republican kos make is you spend four or eight years criticizing dick cheney for misleading the country based on false intelligence and now misleading the country based on false intelligence. it's obviously not the same size issue, but that's basically what they did. they had bad information it was politically convenient for them and they repeated them. i don't think they really blame them, they were giving cia told them this is what happened, they repeated it it was easy. i generally think don't get in that. obama's weakness on
even today we saw paul ryan talking more about benghazi. >> i don't think the president, i think the-- the thing they do is stand in defense of susan rice, not give the appearance that she was operating on the information she had. our information was wrong. this is it. but i mean to disa bruise the sort of conspiracy theorist, but also to stand up for one of his own. i don't think quite frankly he has done that. >> is this hurting the president, as it kind of drags on? >> i...
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>> i think there's a lot of energy for people in the room toward paul ryan. they feel a lot better about mittate romney since then. but it's really for mitt romney and the republicans to make their case to the people of the country unfiltered. it's their best chance. there will be some 40 million americans watching. the biggest crowd by a factor of 100 that mitt romney has ever spoken to probably. it's a very crucial moment in his quest for the presidency. >> i defend these things to the death. if you look, how many things actually change the polls? we've had a year of campaigning. nothing has changed the polls. i almost guarantee, almost, that this event will change the polls. >> ifill: you guarantee snit said almost. almost. usually a four or five point bounce and the democrats will get their bounce. that has an effect on public opinion. all these other candidates who will be speaking tomorrow who are down-ticket candidates that will play back home and affect their own races. i think these things should be two or three weeks. >> (laughing) ifill: the down-t
>> i think there's a lot of energy for people in the room toward paul ryan. they feel a lot better about mittate romney since then. but it's really for mitt romney and the republicans to make their case to the people of the country unfiltered. it's their best chance. there will be some 40 million americans watching. the biggest crowd by a factor of 100 that mitt romney has ever spoken to probably. it's a very crucial moment in his quest for the presidency. >> i defend these things...
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. >> those people in this country who want real change from day one are going to vote for paul ryan and myself, and i need your help. [applause] >> how does america change if mitt romney is president? >> america chances in two significant ways. the first is he does try to do a tax reform that's long overdue. we haven't had a significant tax reform since 1986, and the second is, waste the future of the safety net and the old wage and low-income programs? it's a very different vision there. >> in the waning hours of his bid for the white house, mitt romney has pitched himself as a candidate of compromise. he talks about working with good democrats to get america moving again. and it is exactly what this bit earl divided country really -- bitterly divided country really needs. but there's a hitch. his priorities may make that compromise simply impossible. >> what the court did not do on its last day in session, i will do on my first day if elected president of the united states, and that is i will act to repeal obamacare. >> mr. obama's experience on capitol hill should be a warning. the o
. >> those people in this country who want real change from day one are going to vote for paul ryan and myself, and i need your help. [applause] >> how does america change if mitt romney is president? >> america chances in two significant ways. the first is he does try to do a tax reform that's long overdue. we haven't had a significant tax reform since 1986, and the second is, waste the future of the safety net and the old wage and low-income programs? it's a very different...
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ryan budget. what-- what is-- not a shock that this happened. but what's the next step here? what happens? >> we have an election. >> woodruff: does it matter? it's march. >> we have an election. we wait until december, the cat-- when bad fiscal things happen all at once. i give ryan credit. i don't agree with all part of it but he's taken a step forward. one of the saddest things this week, jim cooper and others put together a simpson-boles plan. we're going to end up eventually, we'll end up with something like simpson-boles. >> woodruff: including tax increases. >> right. >> woodruff: the republicans aren't ready. >> and neither are the democrats. >> the rejection of the simpson-bol's approach is is dead in this city. i think the ryan budget, which i think is indefensible in a social sense, in a social justice sense, with the tax cuts for the average millionaire. i think it's the blueprint that house republicans laying down right now for the lame duck session that follows the election. they hav
ryan budget. what-- what is-- not a shock that this happened. but what's the next step here? what happens? >> we have an election. >> woodruff: does it matter? it's march. >> we have an election. we wait until december, the cat-- when bad fiscal things happen all at once. i give ryan credit. i don't agree with all part of it but he's taken a step forward. one of the saddest things this week, jim cooper and others put together a simpson-boles plan. we're going to end up...
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romney and ryan are in denial. >> ifill: and republican paul ryan flew to colorado. >> mitt romney and i are not going to run away from these problems. we're going to run to these problems to solve these problems because they get out of our control. that's what leaders do. we're not going to kick the can down the road. we're going to lead. i'll tell you what. we're not going to spend the next four years blaming other people for our problems. we're going to take responsibility. >> ifill: just 15 days left. both campaigns are burning through their considerable cash reserves. the democrats spend $111 million in september, mostly on ads, leaving the president and his party with $149 million cash on hand. romney and the republican national committee meanwhile spent $55 million last month and had $183 million left at the end of september. here with us now to preview what to expect tonight are syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. if i had said to either of you six weeks ago that everything in this election would be so tight that it would depend on the
romney and ryan are in denial. >> ifill: and republican paul ryan flew to colorado. >> mitt romney and i are not going to run away from these problems. we're going to run to these problems to solve these problems because they get out of our control. that's what leaders do. we're not going to kick the can down the road. we're going to lead. i'll tell you what. we're not going to spend the next four years blaming other people for our problems. we're going to take responsibility....
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(laughter) >> i didn't even know she had a song about paul ryan. (laughter) >>. >> ifill: i'll translate for you david. >> woodruff: here we are 20 something hours after bill clinton, mark shields. are you still thinking about what he had to say or are you projecting ahead to what president obama said? >> well, president obama has to build up on what bill clinton had to say and what bill clinton had to say. bill clinton hit a home run, michelle obama hit a home run. now it's barack obama to carry it forward. he can't get by with a ground ruled double tonight. he these hit a home run. i mean, they've set a bar that is that high. i mean, there have been two exceptional nights, michelle obama and bill clinton. and while david and i were quite admiring of governor christie in tampa, there was nobody at the republican event that established anything to the same standard, i think, that barack obama needs to do. >> ifill: the republican campaign officials told me that the first night with michelle obama was supposed to be about heart and values and the se
(laughter) >> i didn't even know she had a song about paul ryan. (laughter) >>. >> ifill: i'll translate for you david. >> woodruff: here we are 20 something hours after bill clinton, mark shields. are you still thinking about what he had to say or are you projecting ahead to what president obama said? >> well, president obama has to build up on what bill clinton had to say and what bill clinton had to say. bill clinton hit a home run, michelle obama hit a home...
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paul ryan claims this budget reflects the principles of our shared faith. but the united states conference catholic bishops stated that the ryan budget failed a basic moral test because it would harm families living in poverty. we agree with our bishop, and that's why we went on the road to stand with struggling families and to lift up our catholic sisters who serve them. their work to alleviate suffering would be seriously harmed by the romney/ryan budget and that is wrong. [ applause ] during our journey i rediscovered a few truths. first mitt romney and paul ryan are correct when they say that each individual should be responsible. but their budget goes astray in not acknowledging that we're responsible not only for ourselves and our immediate family rather our faith strongly affirms that we're all responsible for one another. i am my sister's keeper. i am my brother's keeper. [cheers and applause] while we were in toledo -- in toledo, i met ten-year-old twins matt and mark who had got noon trouble at school for fighting. sister virginia and the staff at
paul ryan claims this budget reflects the principles of our shared faith. but the united states conference catholic bishops stated that the ryan budget failed a basic moral test because it would harm families living in poverty. we agree with our bishop, and that's why we went on the road to stand with struggling families and to lift up our catholic sisters who serve them. their work to alleviate suffering would be seriously harmed by the romney/ryan budget and that is wrong. [ applause ] during...
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so by raising this issue, the paul ryan budget which cuts aid to the disabled, which cuts aid to immigrant's children, which cuts aid to the elderly, and to those victims of abuse, the catholic bishop came out and said this violates the moral code. this is a violation of our belief in common ground and common good. and so they are alienating the catholic bishops. i mean it makes no sense other than politically within the republican party. >> i do agree with that. the message plays within the republican party 28% of the country, it does not play outside. and in places like california where-- i mean pennsylvania where you have a lot of catholics, they are really-- what little chance they had. >> just a couple minutes, i want the last sorry. sort of a nonstory story, right, this is the group of republican political op rattives. and they propose an ad, an ad campaign, right that would tie president obama to reverend jeremiah wright. as almost happened four years ago. and then it quickly gets disavowed by mitt romney and others. what was that about? does it tell us anything about -- >> it tells u
so by raising this issue, the paul ryan budget which cuts aid to the disabled, which cuts aid to immigrant's children, which cuts aid to the elderly, and to those victims of abuse, the catholic bishop came out and said this violates the moral code. this is a violation of our belief in common ground and common good. and so they are alienating the catholic bishops. i mean it makes no sense other than politically within the republican party. >> i do agree with that. the message plays within...
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and in washington, romney's running mate, paul ryan, charged president obama had emboldened extremists by showing weakness. >> only by the competent exercise of american influence are evil and violence overcome. that is how we keep problem as broad from becoming crises. that is what keeps the peace. and that is what we will have in a romney ryan administration. >> holman: romney and ryan also accused the president of dismissing israel's concerns about iran's nuclear program. ryan said it amounts to "indifference bordering on contempt." negotiators in the week-old teachers strike in chicago now say they've achieved a framework for a deal. the school district and the teachers union will spend the weekend working out details, and the union will vote on sunday. that means some 350,000 students could return to school monday. neither side would specify what they've worked out on the contentious issues of pay and teacher evaluations. in afghanistan, a bus and truck collided today, killing at least 51 people. it happened in the east, in ghazni province, on a highway linking the capital, kabul,
and in washington, romney's running mate, paul ryan, charged president obama had emboldened extremists by showing weakness. >> only by the competent exercise of american influence are evil and violence overcome. that is how we keep problem as broad from becoming crises. that is what keeps the peace. and that is what we will have in a romney ryan administration. >> holman: romney and ryan also accused the president of dismissing israel's concerns about iran's nuclear program. ryan...
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it's one of the big surprises to me is that medicare did not fight against paul ryan or the republicans. i thought there would be ads in every house race. maybe the polling didn't show it. the one other state i would talk about when the polls close is indiana senate where richard murdoch the republican who had a gaffe about rape and abortion is fighting against a moderate joe donley, democrat. this should be a lockdown republican seat but it's close. it was close before the gaffe. because they ousted richard lugar a more moderate republican. it's that seat and the missouri seat where the republicans could have given away two morrison at seats. if this was, astuter and christina said this was the golden opportunity for the republicans to take back the senate. >> woodruff: is there a thread running through all that or are these just isolated instances of what happened in individual races? >> i mean the republicans, this is not... this is becoming a pattern with republicans. i mean it happened in 2010. they had a chance to knock out harry reid. the senate majority leader. they nominated an
it's one of the big surprises to me is that medicare did not fight against paul ryan or the republicans. i thought there would be ads in every house race. maybe the polling didn't show it. the one other state i would talk about when the polls close is indiana senate where richard murdoch the republican who had a gaffe about rape and abortion is fighting against a moderate joe donley, democrat. this should be a lockdown republican seat but it's close. it was close before the gaffe. because they...
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in idell, iowa, vice presidential candidate paul ryan said tonight's main speaker former president bill clinton will try to shift attention from mr. obama's economic record. >> we're going to hear a lot of things in charlotte, but we're not going to hear a convincing argument that we're better off than we were four years ago. we're going to hear from president clinton tonight in charlotte. my guess is we'll get a great rendition of how good things were in the 1990s but we're not going to hear much about how things have been in the last four years. >> holman: meanwhile republican presidential nominee mitt romney continued debate preparations at a private home in vermont. however he took a quick trip to an appliance store in nearby lebanon, new hampshire, where he spoke with supporters about the needs of small business. wall street hesitated today, after a profit warning from the shipping giant fed-ex. the company said it's being hurt by a slowdown in business-- the latest sign that the global economy is dialing back. that was enough to keep stocks in check. the dow jones industrial avera
in idell, iowa, vice presidential candidate paul ryan said tonight's main speaker former president bill clinton will try to shift attention from mr. obama's economic record. >> we're going to hear a lot of things in charlotte, but we're not going to hear a convincing argument that we're better off than we were four years ago. we're going to hear from president clinton tonight in charlotte. my guess is we'll get a great rendition of how good things were in the 1990s but we're not going to...
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. >> suarez: republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan is also in north carolina while the man at the top of the ticket has no public schedule. ryan is trying to solidify recent polls here, trending mitt romney's way. this is one of those kinds of elections where a handful of states may make the determination not just of who your next governor is going to be or just who your next president is going to be, but what kind of land your kids will inherit. this is it. we can do this. the point i want to make to you is it is in our control. >> suarez: if the president scratches out another win here, it will be thanks in part to people like gloria goodwood, a cancer survivor who champions health care reform. >> what i do every single weekend is, i go out, i register voters, i'm on the phone calling. i run a data bank, and we are really trying to educate people about healthcare, about problems with the military, about all things. we don't just have a black president; we have a president of the united states. that's a people president. >> suarez: not all the people are happy. occupy prot
. >> suarez: republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan is also in north carolina while the man at the top of the ticket has no public schedule. ryan is trying to solidify recent polls here, trending mitt romney's way. this is one of those kinds of elections where a handful of states may make the determination not just of who your next governor is going to be or just who your next president is going to be, but what kind of land your kids will inherit. this is it. we can do this. the...
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. >> well, when paul ryan is still answering questions on a very tough forum like the "today" show and mat lawer is talking to him about what he said in his acceptance speech and he finally today acknowledged that, in fact president obama was not responsible in any way and he didn't mean to suggest that, it's an erroneous reading of the speech. he didn't suggest that president obama was responsible for the closing ever to janesville plant. so it's a problem. let's be very frank. we have people going through stop signs on facts on both sides of this campaign and i just think the campaigns message is that there isn't a big price to play. that people's level of expectation about the candor of the political debate is pretty low. >> woodruff: on either side. >> that's exactly right. one of the things the parties do really swell fact checking. there are people that are democrats, people that are republicans do meticulous fact checking. every speech is run very carefully. when they lie, they do it intentionally and they're doing it because they think it's nobody paying attention. >> ifill: wh
. >> well, when paul ryan is still answering questions on a very tough forum like the "today" show and mat lawer is talking to him about what he said in his acceptance speech and he finally today acknowledged that, in fact president obama was not responsible in any way and he didn't mean to suggest that, it's an erroneous reading of the speech. he didn't suggest that president obama was responsible for the closing ever to janesville plant. so it's a problem. let's be very frank....
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ryan is too modest in cutting medicare, he wants to start with today's retirees if you are 55 or 65 he wants to cut with you and believe me that would be a deep problem in the general election but at least it is a big solution, obama, what he has to do is give us some program not only just running against congress and run against the crazy republicans but give us a proam commensurate with the size of the problems so to that extent his future is in his hands, but, you know, the europeans, should be worrying about as we know. >> what have we learned from the republicans so far? >> well, we haveearned as i said, they are in dire search of the right candidate and they can't seem to find it in this field, they know this is a nomination well worth having, president obama is incredibly vulnerable, much more vulnerable that president bush was in004, much more absolutely herbal, his job approvals ght to ten points lower, the consumer nfidence numbers are 30 points longer a and the wro track numbers are 40 points lowe tha in 2004, that has not yet caught up to president obama, it will at some
ryan is too modest in cutting medicare, he wants to start with today's retirees if you are 55 or 65 he wants to cut with you and believe me that would be a deep problem in the general election but at least it is a big solution, obama, what he has to do is give us some program not only just running against congress and run against the crazy republicans but give us a proam commensurate with the size of the problems so to that extent his future is in his hands, but, you know, the europeans, should...
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in clinton, iowa, vice presidential nominee paul ryan said a romney administration would help more americans find jobs. >> we have a jobs crisis in america. wouldn't it be nice to have a job creator in the white house? ( applause ) we can't afford four more years. we need a real recovery. take a look at just jobs. we lost 582,000 manufacturing jobs since the president took office. he's offering a new tax increase on our job creators that will cost us 700,000 jobs. we're offering really forms. >> ifill: which candidate has the better plan to get the economy back on track? that's the key question in battleground states like north carolina, which only months ago seemed out of reach for the democrats this year. but it's back in play again. jeffrey brown traveled there to discover why. >> lead the way. brown: 26-year-old dewayne owens who served in the marines and is now a professional mixeded marshal artist usually takes on tougher opponents than your correspondent. >> i see. brown: but this weekend on a break from training at the gym in durham, he offered a few pointers >> when i kick i'm think
in clinton, iowa, vice presidential nominee paul ryan said a romney administration would help more americans find jobs. >> we have a jobs crisis in america. wouldn't it be nice to have a job creator in the white house? ( applause ) we can't afford four more years. we need a real recovery. take a look at just jobs. we lost 582,000 manufacturing jobs since the president took office. he's offering a new tax increase on our job creators that will cost us 700,000 jobs. we're offering really...
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>> it goes a lot to what we were talking about with the paul ryan budget. democrats attempted to use there as their wedge issue. it doesn't appear to have worked. it might work in a few individual races but they weren't really ready to make these national elections. candidates matter and redrawing of the lines matter. this will be a lasting change when you look at the regions where democrats are losing. >> ifill: one of the interesting things about the election year is as we wait to hear, we're watching the people in front of the white house. there's a big party going on out there right now. not too far from us. you know, we usually wait to hear these candidates speak. this is in front of the white house. let's take a look at what's happening in boston at romney headquarters. they're waiting to see their guy. this has not been a good night for romney supporters. we used to always wait to hear the speakers come out to concede or to accept the win, the victory. in fact tonight what we're seeing instead is a tweet from president obama. before we hear him forma
>> it goes a lot to what we were talking about with the paul ryan budget. democrats attempted to use there as their wedge issue. it doesn't appear to have worked. it might work in a few individual races but they weren't really ready to make these national elections. candidates matter and redrawing of the lines matter. this will be a lasting change when you look at the regions where democrats are losing. >> ifill: one of the interesting things about the election year is as we wait to...